The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-11-24

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THURSDAY. NOV. "a. 1887.
Let she Called Ja(de) Vince.
We beg pardon Of orr readers for
taking up SO much space this week in
giving prominence to, and advertising
! our esteemed! contemporary, and after
having disposed Of it in the manner
we do to-day, we promise to let it Sc
yerely alone and devote. ourselves to
the legitimate functions Of a home pa
per of useful information, rational
amusement. and valuable instruction
and avoid the slang and personalities
in which, said contemporary is prone
to indulge and our readers cannot be
interested but with which they must
be intensely disguised. y ="
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The scurrility and offensive person.
atty which characterized an effusion
in the last issue of the other paper,
wherein occur such choice! expressions
as ''hanky:panky", Zip little gag
and its remark "to come off, may
make the boys laugh but it must "'make
the judicious grieve" to think that such
an inuendo and double entendre style
of literature may find its way into the
home circles of Bottineau's respecta
bility.
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There's naught so vile that on the earth
doth live,
But to the earth some special good doth
give.
Friar Lawrence, when thus solilo.
quizing, must have had that other pa
per in his mind, for it is possible tt
e that some good will come out
of the vile stuff that was belched forth
last week by our elegant and chaste!
contemporary, when the good people
of Bottineau County stamp out with
ttheirrighteous indignation that foul,
pestiferous sheet.
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Last week the other paper in a
spirit of emulation copied the style
of our farmers column; this may be
pardonable but when it ''stole our
thunder" as it did the week before,
in copying the wheat statistics which
we had taken pains and gone to some
expense, to procure, without giving
the proper credit therefor, it then, in
a journalistic sense, made itself a
criminal.
"The toad has vet a precious jew.
el in its head"-we beg pardon of the
toad for making the comparison
but if the other paper desires to pre-.
serve the jewel of its young life for fu-
tire usefulness and make itself re.
spected it will change its tune. This
advice we give gratuitously.
The editor of the paper referred tc
above is to be congratulated in becom
ing one OF the principal n in it
considering the fact that he has liveo
80 long among. US and has spent! 81
much in charitable and other enter,
prises and accumulated enough in the
last six months to buy out FIVE
twelfths Of the paper. He is nj car
pet. Dagger. That the fresh young
man who never held an Office but now
edits the other paper, has become one
of the principal owners in it, is &C.
counted for by the fact that most Of
the merchants who we're "roped" into
it have sold out as stated by us last
week.
It is a fortunate thing that oul
county contains an intelligent and
sensible class OF people who cannot be
deceived by such high-hown, preten
tious asseverations--to use no stronger
terms-of the wonderfully large cir
culation of that heightened! paper
across the way. It is to be observed
that such statements are the last ex.
piring kicks Of concern whose only
merit is, that it is conducted by 8
modest! youth in the interest of .
combination whose inception was thu
progeny Of hate and whose object II
life is to bolster up an ambitious, a.,
piring set Of politicians Of an edett
organization, the putridity Of which
infects the atmosphere and nauseate'
NIL with whom it comes in contac
worse than the town well water.
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